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An account of tax collections at Karanis for a tenth indiction, listing taxpayers and their payments in talents and drachmas, with some contributions of meat in pounds. Separate sections record payments on account of chaff and of branches, the latter through the sitologos Antiourios.
The verso held a further 17 lines, now too abraded to read, apparently naming many of the same taxpayers. The word thallia, rendered 'branches', is uncertain in meaning here.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account of Tax Collections). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The papyrus appears to be complete, but the first column is mutilated and the writing on the verso is much abraded. The hand of the recto is the common slanting cursive of the period; that of the verso is more upright and skilled. The ink is considerably faded on both sides. The …
[r,1] ἀπαίτησις ἀργυρίου τῆς ι ἰνδικτίονος. Πτολλᾶς Οὐενάφρεως τάλαντα η κρέως λίτραι ε ὁμοίως ἄλλα τάλαντα γ Παπεῖς Ἀιῶνος τάλαντα ιβ ὁμοίως ἄλλα τάλαντον α 𐅵 Σώτας Κολούθου τάλαντα γ Σεύθης Πτελεμαίου τάλαντα ε ὁμοίως ἄλλα τάλαντα γ ἄλλο τάλαντον α Σεραπίων Παησίου τάλαντα β ὁμ…
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